composer
Though first known through his collaboration with director Barrie Kosky in the Opera Australia production of his The Ascension of Robert Flau (1990), Douglas Knehans (b. 1957) is perhaps best ...
related works
Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
Magna res est Amor / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 4000 str
Three songs : for (mezzo) soprano and orchestra, 1991 / poems by Paul Celan, Jan Vriend
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr/sopr-m 2222 4231 2perc pf(perc) str(8.8.6.5.2.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2030 2000 hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(librettist)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans